"Come & See"

Protomartyr might have Stockholm Syndrome with their Detroit hometown—despite their pride, you get the sense that Detroit more or less serves as their own prison, which would explain why on “Come & See”, singer Joe Casey refers to Detroit as a hole. Similar to “Scum, Rise!”, the preceding single from their new record Under Color of Official Right, this tortured fit of Midwestern post-punk comes from the depths of an ailing city. The typically acerbic Casey sings of the East and West Coast arriving with “complicated haircuts” to inject some functioning capitalism into his town. He says he’ll “try to live defeated” but sounds more like a dead man walking, as Protomartyr capture that warm acceptance of fate while flipping the world off from inside their cell.